A foreign city, dear you

On the tenth day of the lunar month, for Cao Xueqian, the Spring Festival is over.

Because he is going to work today.

One of Cao Xueqian’s plans this year is to pay off his debts.

The debts have been paid off one after another, and in a month or two they will be almost completely paid off.

For more than a year, Cao Xueqian still felt that there was a big burden on him, even though no one called him for debt.

Fortunately, it can be paid off quickly, and then your whole body will feel relaxed.

As for the person from the neighboring village who called him that day, his name was Wang Daqun.

When Wang Daqun called Cao Xueqian, was he just looking for a fellow villager, or did he have other motives?

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Two months later, Saturday.

Cao Xueqian returned home after working a half-day shift. After taking a short rest, he said to Ye Lian: "There is no need to cook tonight, let's go out to eat."

"Why?" Ye Lian was surprised.

"Wang Daqun wants to come to me and ask us to have dinner together."

"Who is Wang Daqun?"

"It's the person from the neighboring village who I told you to call me during the Spring Festival."

"He really came to see you? He invited you to dinner, what should I do? Isn't it appropriate? I don't know him."

"What's inappropriate? It's just a casual meal. Besides, he also brought his wife."

"Okay then." Ye Lian agreed and asked, "Where should we go to eat?"

"Let's go to 'Xiang Piao Tian Xia'." Cao Xueqian said.

"Xiangpiaotianxia" is a Hunan restaurant opened by a neighbor on the 13th floor of Xi Yayuan.

When the Hunan restaurant was named, the neighbor went upstairs to ask Cao Xueqian.

Cao Xueqian was full of clever ideas, so he named her restaurant "Xiangpiaotianxia", which sounded very grand.

Cao Xueqian just said it casually, but he didn't expect that the neighbor actually accepted it.

"Xiangpiaotianxia" has only been open for a few days, and I heard that business is very popular.

"'Xiang Piao Tian Xia' may not be available." Ye Lian said.

"Then I'll call and ask."

Cao Xueqian said and dialed the neighbor's phone number.

The phone call ended in a few words.

"Done!" Cao Xueqian said after hanging up the phone.

"Is there a seat?" Ye Lian asked.

"Of course, the landlady is still very kind to me." Cao Xueqian said proudly: "She welcomes us to her restaurant and says she will reserve a seat for us and give me a [-]% discount."

"So good?" Ye Lian was also happy.

"She said she was grateful to me for giving her restaurant a good name. Maybe she was very generous because the restaurant was doing well."

"Really? Do you think the name 'Xiangpiaotianxia' is really good? Let me smell it. Where is the fragrance?" Ye Lian was naughty and wanted to hit Cao Xueqian.

"The fragrance is floating all over the world, but you can't smell it?" Cao Xueqian pretended to be surprised, and then showed a look of realization: "I know what the reason is."

"What's the reason?" Ye Lian realized that Cao Xueqian was going to play another trick.

"You have a stuffy nose." Cao Xueqian laughed.

"You're the one with a stuffy nose." Ye Lian was angry. She always lost when she tried to fight with Cao Xueqian.

Seeing that night was about to fall, the family walked to the "Xiangpiaotianxia" restaurant.

The hotel is not far away, just go downhill, cross the road at the zebra crossing, and then walk a short distance and you're there.

"You have never met before, how can you recognize each other later?" Ye Lian asked.

"I told him that we would wait for them at the entrance of the hotel and asked him to pay attention to the two adults and one child. I also told him what clothes you were wearing."

Ye Lian is wearing a red woolen skirt, which is really easy to identify.

“It takes a long time to get there by bus from Qinglong Town, and it’s hard to find a hotel after getting off the bus.”

"You think it's like us, they came here by car."

"You drove here." Ye Lian was so surprised: "That's really well-deserved, it looks so awesome!"

Ye Lian is simple.

Although I have seen countless cars on the street, I have never seen any of my friends drive.

I heard from Cao Xueqian that Cheng Yufei also bought a car, but she hadn't seen it yet.

"Are you envious?" Cao Xueqian asked.

"How should I put it? It's not that I'm envious, I just think that someone who can drive a car must be great." Ye Lian said truthfully.

For Ye Lian, there are so many cars on the street, but they have nothing to do with her.

She often shuttles in the traffic. There are many cars right in front of her, but she also feels that they are far away. Because she feels that her world is different from the world of people who own cars.

Ye Lian subconsciously believes that the world of people who own cars is much more exciting and unrestrained than her world, but these excitements and unrestrainedness belong to those who own cars. She, Ye Lian, never thinks extravagantly.

Yes, Ye Lian never had extravagant thoughts, but she didn't know that the surprise and envy she inadvertently revealed touched Cao Xueqian.

The two people arrived at Xiangpiao Tianxia Hotel while talking.

The business of the restaurant is indeed very prosperous, and there is an endless stream of people coming in to eat.

Cao Xueqian and Ye Lian were waiting outside the store with Lanshan.

"Wait a minute, what should we call his wife?" Ye Lian asked.

"He is older than me, so let's call him wife and sister-in-law." Cao Xueqian said.

After waiting for about twenty minutes, a silver BYD slowly stopped at the door of the hotel. A man in his mid-thirties got out of the car, looked at the door of the hotel, and waved to Cao Xueqian and the others.

Behind him, a young girl followed.

He should be Wang Daqun, he looks a head taller than Cao Xueqian

But what about his wife? Who is this girl?

Wang Daqun stepped forward and asked Cao Xueqian: "Are you Cao Xueqian?"

Cao Xueqian nodded: "Yes."

Before Cao Xueqian could say another word, Wang Daqun stretched out his hand: "Wang Daqun, nice to meet you."

Cao Xueqian also extended his hand to shake Wang Daqun's hand: "Hello, Brother Wang, I have long admired your name."

"Haha," Wang Daqun smiled heartily: "Don't be so polite. Just be casual. You can call me by my name or Lao Wang."

Ye Lian next to her smiled slightly. She thought people with cars would be aloof, but she didn't expect that Wang Daqun was more easy-going, almost like ordinary people without cars.

"This is my wife." Cao Xueqian introduced Ye Lian to Wang Daqun.

Ye Lian nodded to Wang Daqun.

"Hello, Mr. Ye."

"Mr. Ye?" Is this a term of endearment? Ye Lian didn't know why and wasn't used to it, but she could only smile and let him go.

"Is this your son?" Wang Daqun asked Cao Xueqian while looking at Lanshan.

Cao Xueqian nodded and said "yes" and asked Lanshan to call him "Uncle Wang".

Wang Daqun picked up Lanshan and talked to Lanshan cordially.

I didn’t expect Wang Daqun to be so approachable and like children so much.

Ye Lian began to have a good impression of Wang Daqun.

However, this good impression quickly disappeared.